Label-holder for calculating-machines.



JLE. STRAUB. LABEL HOLDER FOR CALCULATING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY ll, 19I6.

Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH E. STRAUB, OF ILION, NEW YORK, ASSIG'NOR TO WAHL COMPANY, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

LABEL-HOLDER FOR CALCULATING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1919.

Application filed May 11, 1916. Serial No. 96,787.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH E. S'rRAUB, of Ilion, county of Herkimer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Label-Holders for Calculating-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improved label holder for calculating machines and the particular embodiment of my invention shown is applied to a Wahl adding machine. The IVahl machine has been on the market a number of years and has been described in numerous patents, particularly that issued to John C. Wahl, #893,? 19, July 8th, 1908, and others.

The Wahl machine includes a typewriter and on this typewriter is mounted a bar which travels with the carriage of the type writer. On the said bar may be mounted a plurality of totalizers which are used to foot amounts in vertical columns. These totalizers are movable along the bar on which they are mounted and therefore may be set in any desired position to correspond with the proper columns on the worksheet. wing to the fact that the totalizers are on the front of the machine and the worksheet is necessarily on the rear of the machine, it sometimes becomes inconvenient to determine in which particular totalizer a number printed on the worksheet is entered. It is the object of my invention to provide these totalizers with means to support a small removable label which may be preferably a piece of card and so arrange this supporting means that said cards may be readily interchanged.

Another object of my invention is the provision of a label holder for said totalizers which may be readily affixed to totalizers not in use. As will be seen from the accompanying description these labels may be readily changed and inasmuch as the Wahl machine is provided with an index mark cooperating with the totalizer at that time being actuated, it is obvious that the provision of a label on such totalizer will enable the operator at a glance to determine in which totalizer the number then being printed is entered.

These and other objects of my invention will be hereinafter pointed out and claimed.

My invention may be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings of which- Figure 1 is a front view of a part of a IVahl adding machine equipped with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the totalizers.

Fig. 3 is a section of Fig. 2 along the lines 3-3, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the clips for holding the detachable labels hereinbefore referred to.

Referring to Fig. 1, 10 represents the usual truck or bar present on the Wahl machine, which bar is connected to the carriage and moves step by step as the keys of the machine are actuated. The Wahl machine is provided with a set of numeral keys (not shown) any one of which when operated serves to rotate a master wheel 11 a diiferential amount. This master wheel serves to enter numbers in any one of the totalizers 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19. These totalizers as before noted are mounted on the bar 10 and may be adjusted to any desired position on said bar to thereby correspond with proper columns of the worksheet.

The Wahl machine shown is provided with the usual movable carriage on which is mounted a platen and the keys are provided with suitable instrumentalities to print on the worksheet any number entered into the totalizer and any alphabetical legend which may be associated therewith. I have not shown any of these parts of the typewriter since they are well known to those skilled in the art and do not form a part of my present invention.

Each one of the totalizers 12 to 19 inclusive is provided with a cover plate 20, the edges 21 of which are bent to form a groove 22, this groove extending on either side of the cover plate 20, and also at the bottom 23 thereof. In the pocket thus formed may be inserted a card or slip of paper 24: inscribed with a suitable legend to identify the particular column on the worksheet associated with said totalizer. It will be observed that these labels may be readily removed from the totalizers and other labels bearing different legends substituted in their place. Inasmuch as the totalizers all pass before an index 25, which index when in the precise opposite the marks 26 on the cover 20 indicates the decimal place of the totalizer Which is at that time being actuated, the operator, by glancing at the label on the totalizer then before the index, will be at once able to associate said totalizer with the column headed by a name similar to the legend on the totalizer label 2e.

It will be observed that the holder for label 24 is formed up from the cover plate. In order to make provision for a label holder which can be attached to totalizers already in use, I have shown, in Fig. 2, an alternative form of my invention consisting of the small clip 27, best shown in Fig. 4, which is bent as clearly shown in said figure. The clip 27 is provided with a tongue 28 which is adapted to slide between the lower cover plate 29 of the totalizer and be held between said cover plate and the side plate 30, the tension between said cover plate 29 and the side plate 30 being sufficient to hold the tongue 28 in its place. A channel 31 is wide enough to accommodate the thickness of both the cover plate 29 and the label 32, and the bottom 33 of this channel is bent inwardly in order to prevent the label 32 from dropping out. It will be observed that these small clips may be placed on totalizers Which are already in use, thereby avoiding the necessity of furnishing new top cover plates 20.

In Fig. 3, I have shown a section along the line 3-3 of the totalizer 12. This section will clearly illustrate the way in which the label 32, the lower cover 29, the side plates 30 and the clip 27 are assembled in relation to each other.

Many changes and variations may be made form herein shown without departing from the spirit of my invention since I claim:

1. In a calculating machine, the combination of a traveling bar and a plurality of totalizers mounted on said traveling bar, said totalizers being provided with pockets for Copies of this patent may be label.

' putation performed by said totalizer.

4. In a calculating machine, the combination of a traveling bar, a totalizer mounted thereon, and a pocket associated with said totalizer, said pocket being adapted to receive a label indicating the nature of the computation performed in said totalizer.

In a calculating machine, the combination of an actuating mechanism, a traveling bar, a pluralit' of totalizers adjustably mounted on sai traveling bar and adapted to cooperate with said actuating mechanism,

each of said totalizers being provided with a pocket adapted to receive a removable label indicating the nature of the computation performed in said totalizers.

6. In a totalizer, the combination of a set of numeral wheels, a pair of side plates supporting said numeral wheels, a cover for said side plates, and a pair of clips adapted to be inserted between said'cover and said side plates and to be frictionally held thereby, said clips having portions adapted to project on the outside of said cover and thereby form a pocket for the insertion of a suitable In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 5th day of May, 1916.

JOSEPH E. STRAUB.

obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner at Eatenta,

Washington, D. U. 

